Makashi – Dueling Focus
Lightsaber FormUniversal- Cost
- 2 FP
- Activation
- Bonus Action
- Range
- 5 ft
- Recommended Lv
- Lv 7+
Effect
As a Bonus Action, mark one target within 5 ft. Until the start of your next turn, you gain +2 AC against that target and Advantage on your next attack against them.
At the Table
A duelist faces a Sith acolyte across a narrow durasteel walkway. Burning 2 FP as a Bonus Action, she marks him within 5 ft and locks in: until the start of her next turn she has +2 AC against his strikes and Advantage on her next swing at him. His lightsaber slash glances off her tightened guard, and she answers with that Advantage attack — the elegant give-and-take of a true duel.
In the Lore
Makashi (Form II) is the classical art of lightsaber dueling, refined for blade-to-blade combat between Force-users when blasters gave way to single elegant opponents. In Legends it is the form most associated with Count Dooku, a fencing-style discipline of precise footwork, economy of motion, and one-on-one mastery — a heritage carried into canon through Dooku's poised, rapier-like dueling in the films and The Clone Wars. Its focus on reading and outmaneuvering a single foe makes it favored by those who prize finesse over brute power, and it stands among the seven classic lightsaber forms taught in the old Jedi tradition.